Scholarship in Texts Contexts Cultures at UCC Ireland
TEXTS, CONTEXTS AND CULTURES
Graduate Research Education Programme
http://www.textscontextscultures.ie Overview
UCC, TCD, NUIG, Ireland. Scholarship available for the Cork program.
Texts, Contexts, Cultures is a new departure in graduate research and
training in Ireland. It offers candidates a multi-disciplinary PhD
programme delivered in co-operation between Arts and Humanities
research institutes at three of Ireland’s leading institutions
–Trinity College Dublin, University College Cork and NUI Galway. The
programme investigates the most basic component of Arts and Humanities
research – the text as material object. Texts, Contexts, Cultures has
therefore been developed around three core areas of research: Imaging
Ireland; History of the book; and European Cultural History.
Texts, Contexts, Cultures offers a structured four year research path
to the completion of a fourth level degree. It allows candidates to
engage with the research knowledge and skills of scholars from three
universities. It encourages candidates to develop their research
interests, ideas and skills in challenging, supportive
interdisciplinary contexts. Their research interests will develop
through a series of foundation year modules which will be delivered at
participating institutions by online learning media and video
conferencing. PhD candidates will have the benefit of wide-ranging
guidance from supervisory panels comprised of leading scholars in
discrete and related fields. There will be opportunity to share and
present research at unique academic events. Texts, Contexts, Cultures
will offer candidates extensive opportunity to develop national and
international research networks through a series of seminars and
colloquia. Across the network of participating institutions, students
will participate in the events and programmes of the Long Room Hub
(the international resource for Arts and Humanities research at
Trinity College Dublin), The Moore Institute for Research in the
Humanities and Social Studies at NUI Galway and at The Graduate School
of the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences at UCC.
Participants will also take advantage of the postgraduate exchange
scheme available through the island-wide collaboration, Humanities
Serving Irish Society.
Texts, Contexts, Cultures is designed to prepare students for life
after graduation. Participants will benefit from a career training
scheme that provides thorough preparation in research skills
transferable to a wide variety of settings. They will also have access
to placements and mentoring systems in a broad range of some of the
most exciting contemporary organisations in media, the cultural and
creative industries, public administration and academe.
Structure
The Texts, Contexts, Cultures pathway will be attractive to students
with doctoral research interests in a wide range of periods, genres
and theoretical perspectives in any of the Arts and Humanities
disciplines.
In Year One
Candidates will take a two-semester conference course on "European
Cultural History: Texts, Contexts and Cultures" taught by Profs.
Nicholas Allen, Crawford Gribben, and Brendan Dooley, available to all
students via videoconferencing, plus one elective course in their home
institution or, by arrangement, in a related institution.
In Years Two to Four
students will pursue their doctoral research with the support of a
supervisory panel of up to four members, which can be drawn from
members of the participating institutions. In each case the
candidate’s director must come from their institution of registration.
The remaining members of the panel may come from any of the
participating institutions.
After Year Two
Candidates will complete a placement in a knowledge economy
environment. Each of these will be organized by the candidate’s
registered institution.
Successful students will graduate from the institution of registration
with a PhD in their discipline.
Faculty
Texts, Contexts, Cultures has a director in each of the participating
institutions.
Professor Brendan Dooley is Professor of Renaissance Studies at
University College Cork. He has previously taught at Harvard
University, Notre Dame University and Jacobs University in Bremen, and
was Chief of Research at the Medici Archive Project in Florence.
Publications include Morandi’s Last Prophecy and the End of
Renaissance Politics, Princeton, 2002; The Social History of
Skepticism: Experience and Doubt in Early Modern Culture, Johns
Hopkins, 1999; Science and the Marketplace, Lexington Books, 2001;
[with Barbara Marti] Giovanni Baldinucci, Quaderno. Guerra, peste e
carestia a Firenze, Polistampa, 2001; [with Sabrina Baron] The
Politics of Information in Early Modern Europe, Routledge, 2000; Italy
in the Baroque: Selected Readings, Garland, 1995; Science, Politics
and Society in Eighteenth-Century Italy. The Giornale de’ letterati d’
Italia and its World, Garland, 1991; [ed. with Intro.] Energy and
Culture: Perspectives on the Power to Work, Ashgate, 2006; and
articles in Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales; Journal of Modern
History; Rivista storica italiana; etc. He is leading the course on
“European Cultural History” and has supervisory interests in early
modern cultural history, and the histories of knowledge, media, and
science. Contact: b.dooley@ucc.ie
Professor Nicholas Allen is Moore Institute Professor at NUI Galway.
He is the author of George Russell and the New Ireland (2003) and is
editor of That Other Island (2007), with Eve Patten, Gerald Dawe’s The
Proper Word (2007) and The Cities of Belfast (2003), with Aaron Kelly.
He is completing a study of Irish literature and art from 1922 to
1939. Recent essays have featured in Modernism and Colonialism (2007),
eds. Richard Begam and Michael Moses, and Classics and National
Cultures (2008), eds. Susan Stephens and Phiroze Vasunia. He leads the
“Imaging Ireland” course, and has supervisory interests in the broad
range of twentieth century Irish literature, history and art.
Professor Allen can be contacted at nicholas.allen@nuigalway.ie Dr
Crawford Gribben is Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Early Modern
Print Culture in the School of English / School of Histories and
Humanities, Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of a number of
studies on early modern religious cultures, including The Puritan
Millennium: Literature and Theology, 1550-1682 (Dublin, 2000) and
God’s Irishmen: Theological debates in Cromwellian Ireland (Oxford,
2007). He leads the “History of the Book” course, and has supervisory
interests in literature, history and religion. Dr Gribben can be
contacted at crawford.gribben@tcd.ie.
How to apply
Prospective students MUST apply directly to the institution from which
they wish to graduate.
Prospective students of University College Cork should contact Brendan
Dooley or Marie O’Donovan (m.odonovan@ucc.ie) for advice on application.
Closing date for UCC is 1 May 2010
Brendan Dooley
Professor of Renaissance Studies
College of Arts
Graduate School
University College Cork
Ireland
+353 (21) 420 5139
Email: b.dooley@ucc.ie
Graduate Research Education Programme
http://www.textscontextscultures.ie Overview
UCC, TCD, NUIG, Ireland. Scholarship available for the Cork program.
Texts, Contexts, Cultures is a new departure in graduate research and
training in Ireland. It offers candidates a multi-disciplinary PhD
programme delivered in co-operation between Arts and Humanities
research institutes at three of Ireland’s leading institutions
–Trinity College Dublin, University College Cork and NUI Galway. The
programme investigates the most basic component of Arts and Humanities
research – the text as material object. Texts, Contexts, Cultures has
therefore been developed around three core areas of research: Imaging
Ireland; History of the book; and European Cultural History.
Texts, Contexts, Cultures offers a structured four year research path
to the completion of a fourth level degree. It allows candidates to
engage with the research knowledge and skills of scholars from three
universities. It encourages candidates to develop their research
interests, ideas and skills in challenging, supportive
interdisciplinary contexts. Their research interests will develop
through a series of foundation year modules which will be delivered at
participating institutions by online learning media and video
conferencing. PhD candidates will have the benefit of wide-ranging
guidance from supervisory panels comprised of leading scholars in
discrete and related fields. There will be opportunity to share and
present research at unique academic events. Texts, Contexts, Cultures
will offer candidates extensive opportunity to develop national and
international research networks through a series of seminars and
colloquia. Across the network of participating institutions, students
will participate in the events and programmes of the Long Room Hub
(the international resource for Arts and Humanities research at
Trinity College Dublin), The Moore Institute for Research in the
Humanities and Social Studies at NUI Galway and at The Graduate School
of the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences at UCC.
Participants will also take advantage of the postgraduate exchange
scheme available through the island-wide collaboration, Humanities
Serving Irish Society.
Texts, Contexts, Cultures is designed to prepare students for life
after graduation. Participants will benefit from a career training
scheme that provides thorough preparation in research skills
transferable to a wide variety of settings. They will also have access
to placements and mentoring systems in a broad range of some of the
most exciting contemporary organisations in media, the cultural and
creative industries, public administration and academe.
Structure
The Texts, Contexts, Cultures pathway will be attractive to students
with doctoral research interests in a wide range of periods, genres
and theoretical perspectives in any of the Arts and Humanities
disciplines.
In Year One
Candidates will take a two-semester conference course on "European
Cultural History: Texts, Contexts and Cultures" taught by Profs.
Nicholas Allen, Crawford Gribben, and Brendan Dooley, available to all
students via videoconferencing, plus one elective course in their home
institution or, by arrangement, in a related institution.
In Years Two to Four
students will pursue their doctoral research with the support of a
supervisory panel of up to four members, which can be drawn from
members of the participating institutions. In each case the
candidate’s director must come from their institution of registration.
The remaining members of the panel may come from any of the
participating institutions.
After Year Two
Candidates will complete a placement in a knowledge economy
environment. Each of these will be organized by the candidate’s
registered institution.
Successful students will graduate from the institution of registration
with a PhD in their discipline.
Faculty
Texts, Contexts, Cultures has a director in each of the participating
institutions.
Professor Brendan Dooley is Professor of Renaissance Studies at
University College Cork. He has previously taught at Harvard
University, Notre Dame University and Jacobs University in Bremen, and
was Chief of Research at the Medici Archive Project in Florence.
Publications include Morandi’s Last Prophecy and the End of
Renaissance Politics, Princeton, 2002; The Social History of
Skepticism: Experience and Doubt in Early Modern Culture, Johns
Hopkins, 1999; Science and the Marketplace, Lexington Books, 2001;
[with Barbara Marti] Giovanni Baldinucci, Quaderno. Guerra, peste e
carestia a Firenze, Polistampa, 2001; [with Sabrina Baron] The
Politics of Information in Early Modern Europe, Routledge, 2000; Italy
in the Baroque: Selected Readings, Garland, 1995; Science, Politics
and Society in Eighteenth-Century Italy. The Giornale de’ letterati d’
Italia and its World, Garland, 1991; [ed. with Intro.] Energy and
Culture: Perspectives on the Power to Work, Ashgate, 2006; and
articles in Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales; Journal of Modern
History; Rivista storica italiana; etc. He is leading the course on
“European Cultural History” and has supervisory interests in early
modern cultural history, and the histories of knowledge, media, and
science. Contact: b.dooley@ucc.ie
Professor Nicholas Allen is Moore Institute Professor at NUI Galway.
He is the author of George Russell and the New Ireland (2003) and is
editor of That Other Island (2007), with Eve Patten, Gerald Dawe’s The
Proper Word (2007) and The Cities of Belfast (2003), with Aaron Kelly.
He is completing a study of Irish literature and art from 1922 to
1939. Recent essays have featured in Modernism and Colonialism (2007),
eds. Richard Begam and Michael Moses, and Classics and National
Cultures (2008), eds. Susan Stephens and Phiroze Vasunia. He leads the
“Imaging Ireland” course, and has supervisory interests in the broad
range of twentieth century Irish literature, history and art.
Professor Allen can be contacted at nicholas.allen@nuigalway.ie Dr
Crawford Gribben is Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Early Modern
Print Culture in the School of English / School of Histories and
Humanities, Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of a number of
studies on early modern religious cultures, including The Puritan
Millennium: Literature and Theology, 1550-1682 (Dublin, 2000) and
God’s Irishmen: Theological debates in Cromwellian Ireland (Oxford,
2007). He leads the “History of the Book” course, and has supervisory
interests in literature, history and religion. Dr Gribben can be
contacted at crawford.gribben@tcd.ie.
How to apply
Prospective students MUST apply directly to the institution from which
they wish to graduate.
Prospective students of University College Cork should contact Brendan
Dooley or Marie O’Donovan (m.odonovan@ucc.ie) for advice on application.
Closing date for UCC is 1 May 2010
Brendan Dooley
Professor of Renaissance Studies
College of Arts
Graduate School
University College Cork
Ireland
+353 (21) 420 5139
Email: b.dooley@ucc.ie